I have two houses 40m apart and am sharing one ADSL link. So house one has the telephone line and router supplied by the provider. I then have a powerline carrier that takes Ethernet to the top floor where I have a second router in AP mode (DD-WRT installed). This has its own SSID but gets addresses via DHCP from the provider router. It is an ASUS RT-N12 with two aerial connections. On one I have a 5db gain omni antenna and on the second I have a square directional outdoor WiFi aerial with 20dB gain pointed at house two. (by the way the antenna is guaranteed to push 20Mbs over 10 km)In house two I have the same RT-N12 router and the same set up, one antenna is an indoor 5dB gain omni and the second is the square directional pointed at house 1. It gets its addresses via DHCP from the ADSL router in house 1.When looking at the link speed between the two houses it varies form 6.5 Mbs to 65 Mbs and constantly changes between these values. My questions are:I understood that the two aerials actually work together, so me putting the directional on one and an omni on the other on the same router may actually not be a good idea, i.e. maybe I should use high gain omnis on both antenna connectors?Should I consider a different pair of WiFi routers? Something like ASUS RT-AC68U Wireless-AC1900 Dual Band Gigabit Router IEEE 802.11ac, IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n?It has been handy to share the same subnet, for example I have a DLNA media server in house 2 and like to play music and movies across in house 1 from it.99% of the time the only traffic across the link is internet access, and since i only get 8 Mbs from ADSL the WiFi link is not the bottleneck. However now I am occasionally trying to stream HD movies which are 25GB in size and need about 2.4MBs (or about 26 Mbs) which are stuttering so much it is unwatchable. Any ideas gratefully receivedthanks
↧